Microsoft can't even build a standards-compliant web browser. How can you expect them to have a good web development suite? A nonprofit feeding off donations fr

Microsoft can't even build a standards-compliant web browser. How can you expect them to have a good web development suite? A nonprofit feeding off donations from Google has constantly outperformed one of the largest software corporations in the world here. (!!) Free software is chosen not because it's free, but because it's /good/ software. Hackers have helped develop their own tools and fixed bugs themselves, so most stuff is very stable. And when there's a need for a new feature, they make it, so it's very capable. It's like survival of the fittest for software. I think a lot of people (and companies) have the idea that you can't get anything good for free. In the software world, that just isn't true. Companies like Slicehost realize this, and give you full control over your slice. Before you deploy though, you could probably just do with a ubuntu box shoved under your bed.